Canons A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam (Paperback) 06-02-2020 Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Best First Book 2008 (UK). Short-listed for Costa First Novel Award 2008 (UK) and Guardian First Book Award 2008 (UK).

Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.